Alcala de Henares (Alca`la de Hena`res) , a town in Spain, the birthplace of Cervantes, 21 m. E. of Madrid, long the seat of a famous university founded by Cardinal Ximenes.
Population (circa 1900) given as 14,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Alcæ`us of Mitylene * Alcan`tara